Spy Photos

1. Poland,
1944
Disturbing
as they are, aerial images like this one of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz
had no effect on the camp's operations after they were taken, because the
photos were collected incidentally as part of bomb-strike imagery of the nearby
IG Farben chemical plant. CIA photo interpreters discovered the imagery decades
later. Aerial photos like this one were the precursors to far more
sophisticated satellite imagery to come.